Tarkington's

One example is Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, the 1919 Pulitzer winner that eventually inspired the 1942 movie directed by Orson Welles.

Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012

Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, and in characters from Paula Fox's novels, and in the character Agatha Harkness from Marvel's Fantastic Four comic book -- as much, or more, than she is a portrait of Helen Buckler.

Jonathan Lethem talks about his latest book, The Fortress of Solitude, 2010

One example is Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, the 1919 Pulitzer winner that eventually inspired the 1942 movie directed by Orson Welles.

Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012

Of those 10, probably one (okay, one if you're lucky) has read Tarkington's original novel, and I'm not that one.

An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

Director Orson Welles had long been interested in Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons which had been filmed as Pampered Youth in 1925.

Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Hell, even something as benign as Booth Tarkington's "Penrod and Sam" is political.

Something else I missed ... Frank Wilson 2006

This is a rich and wide-ranging subject that Sinclair Lewis and John O'Hara dissected in their best novels; that was the focal point for Orson Welles in one of the greatest movies ever made, his adaptation of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, and for Robert and Helen Lynd in their masterpieces of sociology, Middletown and Middletown in Transition; and that I've been obsessed with for years.

The Glass of Fashion 2004

This is a rich and wide-ranging subject that Sinclair Lewis and John O'Hara dissected in their best novels; that was the focal point for Orson Welles in one of the greatest movies ever made, his adaptation of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, and for Robert and Helen Lynd in their masterpieces of sociology, Middletown and Middletown in Transition; and that I've been obsessed with for years.

The Glass of Fashion 2004

And indeed the union was appointed in heaven and smiles in the blood, for (as I have noted) Mr. Holliday's grandfather was the biographer of Tarkington's grandsire, also a pioneer preacher of the metaphysical commonwealth of Indiana.

Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

Of a truth, Mr. Holliday's success in putting himself within Tarkington's dashing checked kuppenheimers is a fine achievement of projected psychology.

Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923